Contemporary

architecture

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About Santiago Calatrava :

Santiago Calatrava has been accepted as one of the leading
designers of contemporary architecture. Primarily known as a
Spanish architect, Calatrava is also a world wide known artist and
engineer.
This uniqueness derives from his multi-disciplinary interests in
specified fields, his sophisticated architectural background, and his
creative personality. Style, when conceived as something that goes
beyond purposefulness and strikes with an aesthetic quality,
becomes a significant feature of Calatravas works. Including his
earliest projects, every architectural work of the designer follows a
particular route. This route is clearly indicated in the most inventive
forms he uses, his meticulous material selection and his special
treatment of the immediate landscape. The creative path he
followed helped him to produce highly individualistic architectural
works acclaimed internationally and turned Calatrava into a
timeless signature.

Milwaukee art
museum
Architect:Santiago Calatrava
Location :- Art Museum Drive,milwaukee,usa
DirectorDaniel T. Keegan
The Milwaukee Art Center (now the Milwaukee Art
Museum) was formed when the Milwaukee Art
Institute and Layton Art Gallery merged their
collections in 1957 and moved into the newly built
Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War
Memorial. The 341,000-square-foot (31,700m2)
Museum includes the War Memorial Center (1957)
designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen,
the Kahler Building (1975) designed by David Kahler,
and the Quadracci Pavilion (2001) created by Spanish
architect Santiago Calatrava. The Quadracci Pavilion

Milwaukee Art Museum :

Exterior
view
To design an overall scheme with a stronger public
image for the existing site composed of Eero Saarinens
Metropolitan Milwaukee War Memorial and David
Kahlers exhibition space was the scope of the project
dating 1994. By letting the existing structure remain
intact as a separate unity, a new building near the lake
is constructed.
This new structure includes an atrium, 1500 square
meters of gallery space for temporary exhibitions, an
education center with a 300 seat lecture hall, a gift
shop, and a restaurant. A footbridge, designed by
Calatrava again, remarks the entrance with its inclined
pylon. Another pylon inclined with the same angle
supports the conical roof covering the entrance hall.
Composed of mobile ribs, the roof is the most striking
feature of the project.

About the
Structure
The conical roof :of the
museum is composed of two
wing elements. Each wing
contains thirty-six ribs whose
length ranges between 32 and
8 meters. Ribs points of
rising are connected to the
central inclined pylon. In their
closed position, the wings
become surfaces that cover
the conical structure. In their
open position, the glazed
facades of structure become
uncovered. In this condition,
the longest rib remains parallel
to the ground plane and the
free points form two
symmetrical curves. These
elegant curves are the features
that turn the mobile structure
to a great seagull taking off
towards the lake.70
Transformation is both
functional and symbolic

-The moveable, wing like sunscreen (72

steel fins)
- while creating a sort of kinetic urban
sculpture. The brise soleil is made up of
72 steel fins, ranging in length from 26
to 105 feet, weighing 90 tons. It takes
three and a half minutes for the wings
to open or close. Sensors on the fins
continuously monitor wind speed and
direction, and whenever winds exceed
23 mph for more than three seconds,
wings
- if the structure were not sothe
heavy
,it close automatically.
would float if the lake level got too high!
-Approximately 2,100 tons of steel
reinforcing bar has been used in the
concrete.
-Calatrava said that thanks to his clients,
the .project responds to the culture of
the lake: the sailboats, the weather, the
sense of motion and change. The
structure incorporates both cutting-edge

Quadra
cci
Pavilio
n

view

Architectural drawings

West side elevation

plan

North side

- Windhover Hall is the grand entrance

hall for the Quadracci Pavilion. It is
Santiago Calatravas postmodern
interpretation of a Gothic Cathedral,
complete with flying buttresses,
pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and a
central nave topped by a 90-foot-high
glass roof. An average-sized, two-story
family home would fit comfortably
inside the reception hall.
- The halls chancel is shaped like the
prow of a ship, with floor-to-ceiling
windows looking over Lake Michigan.
Adjoining the central hall are two towarched promenades, the Baumgartner
Galleria and Schroeder Foundation
Galleria, with expansive views of the
lake and downtown.

Windhover
Hall

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